Chapter 249 Suddenly
Zhao Yingying didn't quite understand what Li Yufei was thinking when she said this. A girl may look weak, but in fact she is very opinionated and smart. Maybe sometimes, this is not necessarily a good thing.

Thinking too much will make people worried, and it is not easy to feel happiness from ordinary things. Anyway, Zhao Yingying had lost interest in gossip after hearing what Li Yufei said. After cleaning, she had nothing to do, so she made an appointment to go shopping in Ximen Street tomorrow, and then said goodbye and went back home.

After Zhao Yingying left, Li Yufei rested at home alone for a while. She thought that today was the day the factory resumed work, and suddenly wanted to go out for a look, so she went out.

The general staff meeting of Longjingyuan had ended long ago, but the road to the family quarters was still quiet. The employees should have returned to work.

At this time of day, the family quarters are always noisy from morning to night. Employees with nothing to do always like to gather in groups under the eaves to chat and kill time. This is especially true in summer. The alleys, dams, and open spaces in front of the tube-shaped buildings are full of people sitting and chatting to enjoy the cool air. They can't find the direction in their lives, so they have to live a poor and numb life in the former glory of the cannery. Only those who can no longer afford to eat will lower their proud heads as state-owned enterprise employees, and either go to private bosses to do odd jobs as laborers, or pull carts along the streets to sell ordinary food to make a living.

Passing through the quiet family quarters, Li Yufei walked to the main road of Longjing Garden. The lawns on both sides were all renovated before the New Year, and green shoots have grown into patches. The previously dilapidated muddy roads have been re-paved with asphalt, and are neat and clean. The bare red brick walls have been painted and a layer of white paint has been added, with red banners hanging, "Development is the hard truth!", "Reform and innovation for quality, implementation of management to improve efficiency!", "Without execution, there is no competitiveness!"

When she arrived at the cannery production area, she saw more people, it was very lively, and the scene was bustling. The workers were carrying goods and going in and out. The expressions on their faces were very similar to those when she was in elementary school. Life at that time was not very good, and the salary was not high, but everyone lived with hope and enthusiasm, regarded the factory as their home, and made great efforts to build it.

The uncles and aunts in the factory all looked at Li Yufei who was walking over with a smile. There was no one in Longjingyuan who didn't know the director's daughter. They were very respectful and polite. But in the previous year, Longjingyuan was on the verge of collapse and couldn't pay wages. The employees had resentment towards the director Li Jilin, and it was inevitable that Li Yufei would be affected. Although they didn't hurt a little girl openly, they were always not in a good mood or good look.

According to some factory workers, Li Jilin was employed by the district government. After ruining the cannery, he could just walk away and become a high-ranking official in the government. How could he care about the lives of ordinary people like them? However, who knew that the situation would take a turn for the better. Not only did the Longjingyuan Cannery come back to life, they were paid their monthly wages and production resumed, but Li Jilin was also promoted from the director of Longjingyuan to the general manager of Liansheng, and he was still the head of the cannery's more than 200 people.

Under such circumstances, how could the people in the factory dare to give the factory director's beloved daughter a bad face? There were quite a few people who tried to curry favor with her! Of course, in their hearts, the factory director's daughter was a noble person. The smile on that beautiful face was very polite, but also very far away from them, like the moon in the sky.

Wu Xinghua, the purchasing manager, was also there. Although this veteran worker at the cannery didn't get along well with Li Jilin, it was a work conflict between adults after all. He walked over with his hands behind his back and asked Li Yufei: "Are you here to see your father?"

Li Yufei smiled and shook her head: "No, Uncle Wu, today is the day when Longjing Garden resumes work, I want to come and take a look."

Wu Xinghua thought for a moment and said, "The factory leaders now have relatively high requirements for hygiene. If you want to visit the workshop, I'll ask someone to change you into production work clothes. However, you can't enter the production workshop."

Li Yufei said: "Thank you, Uncle Wu, I know."

As the most confidential department of the cannery, the production workshop has always been strictly prohibited for anyone except the factory director and people from the production department. However, Li Yufei knew very well what she would see if she entered, because in the frying process, the formula and frying time were strictly confidential, and only the factory director, production department chief and a small number of core production department employees who had signed a confidentiality agreement knew about it.

In the production workshop, all you can see is that under a constant temperature, the production department workers put peppers, rapeseed oil and other ingredients into a big pot to fry them. After frying, they are poured onto the conveyor belt and then sent to the filling workshop through a pipe.

Li Yufei can enter the canning workshop.

In her impression, this is the most laborious department in the entire production line, because all processes including washing cans, moving cans, canning, and weighing cans need manual operation. This is mainly because the factory's production line is a bit backward, and because there are many ingredients. If the filling is done by machine, it is easy to have more solids in some cans and less solids in others. In order to solve this problem of "not too little but uneven distribution", only experienced masters who can do "one spoonful of accuracy" can be asked to do manual filling.

Among them, weighing cans is the most tiring. The workers hold the scale with their left hand and add and subtract with their right hand. Their arms are basically numb from the axle movement all day long! What's even worse is that the workers who weigh cans can't keep up with the workers who are responsible for filling them.

As soon as Li Yufei arrived here, she saw that the employees in charge of canning had completed the work of the second shift and were preparing to leave work, while the workers on the scales were still working hard in the workshop, weighing cans desperately. The dozens of baskets filled with cans behind them made her scalp numb.

Labor is never easy, not to mention the assembly line workers who run at high speed like machines. The weather is still cold before the Waking of Insects and the beginning of spring. These workers are sweating all over their heads, but Li Yufei did not feel the negative and perfunctory mood from them. This suddenly reminded her of her mother Xie Jing's enthusiastic words when her father wanted to persuade her to stay when she wanted to transfer her work relationship to Lijin City, the provincial capital: "The current Longjingyuan is no longer the state-owned enterprise with low efficiency and egalitarianism and human relations. The current cannery is all done according to rules and regulations, all rely on ability to make a living, and all speak with performance, so that outstanding employees can stand out! Those who are capable and do well will definitely earn more than others! Those who fail to perform well and seriously violate rules and regulations will be bought out and laid off." This is the biggest difference between Longjingyuan and the past.

Li Yufei is only a high school student, and the economic management of enterprises is still far from her. However, she grew up in Longjingyuan, and she knows some of the reasons why Longjingyuan has lagged behind in recent years. For example, the prevailing egalitarianism, all the people in the factory are in the same pot, and everyone is treated the same, whether they do a good job or a bad job, whether they do a lot or a little, so no one contributes, and there is no risk of layoffs, so the efficiency is low and people are redundant. Over time, how can Longjingyuan not fall behind?

It is different now. The working relationship between the uncles and aunts in the factory is no longer reliable. Longjingyuan belongs to a private boss. The era of socialist workers has become history. The country is no longer responsible for watching movies, taking a bath, arranging children's schooling and employment, and even burying them after death. Employees have to support their families, stand out, and get more wages, so they have to show performance and work hard.

Take a look at the bustling canning workshop.

When the workers no longer live in the shadow of state-owned enterprises, and when they know that they can earn more by working harder, the productivity and initiative they show are so strong. They no longer have the lazy spirit of the past, but are full of energy and enthusiasm, cooperating with each other, following the constant and efficient operation of the assembly line, and then one bottle after another of the newly packaged Longjingyuan canned products are produced.

Until she left the canning workshop, Li Yufei was still immersed in the tremendous changes in the factory. She couldn't help thinking that her father and the factory workers' daily calls for reviving Longjingyuan's former glory might not be just an illusory slogan.

But before she had walked a few steps, she met Uncle Du Zhongping, the head of the production department, and Zhang Yunqi who came out of the production workshop. Uncle Du Zhongping followed Zhang Yunqi with a respectful tone.

This was beyond her expectations, but also within her expectations.

Zhang Yunqi was stunned.

Afterwards, he said a few words to the head of the production department, and then walked towards Li Yufei: "Yufei, why are you here?"

Li Yufei's fair face showed a faint smile: "Logically speaking, I should be the one asking you this question. Longjing Garden is my home since I was a child. You shouldn't be surprised that I appear in my home."

Li Yufei paused, then said meaningfully: "Of course, if this house is bought by someone else, it's not wrong for you to ask this."

Zhang Yunqi smiled: "That makes sense."

Li Yufei turned her head to look at Zhang Yunqi: "You know what? I'm actually very surprised and I have a lot to ask."

Zhang Yunqi asked: "Then why don't you ask?"

Li Yufei shook her head and just smiled: "I just think that some things don't need to be explained so clearly, otherwise everyone will be embarrassed. Many things and many people seem to be different all of a sudden. Feelings are the most important."

Zhang Yunqi looked at the girl in front of him, not knowing what to say, and asked: "There is a banquet tonight to celebrate the resumption of work at the canning factory. Do you want to go and experience it?"

Li Yufei smiled and shook her head: "Tell my dad to drink less. He's so annoying when he's drunk."

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(End of this chapter)